NBC Bay Area became the first television station in many years to gain access to the 300-pound gorilla in the hills above Woodside After 40 years of tightly guarded living in the Santa Cruz mountains, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Koko the gorilla, whose remarkable sign-language ability and motherly attachment to pet cats helped change the world’s views about the intelligence of animals and their capacity ...

Koko, a beloved gorilla that learned to communicate with humans and then stole their hearts, has died. The Gorilla Foundation said the 46-year-old celebrity ape - a western lowland gorilla - died in ...

Over the years, Koko's fame grew. She appeared on two covers of National Geographic—and even took one of the pictures herself. Fans also fell in love with the friendship Koko developed with her kitten ...

CINCINNATI (AP) — A male silverback gorilla loaned to a California group in 1991 as a possible mate for Koko, the gorilla who astounded the world by learning sign language, must be returned to a zoo ...

Koko the gorilla who mastered sign language, raised kittens and once playfully tried on the glasses of the late actor Robin Williams, has died. She was 46. The Gorilla Foundation says the western ...